M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering is a 2-year master's degree program. Some colleges also have a part-time programme of 3-year duration. Students after completing their B.Tech. gets enrolled in M.Tech. program for higher studies. Minimum eligibility asked for this course is 55% aggregate in B.Tech. while it is 60% minimum in IITs.

Top Institutes offering M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering course are:

• Bharat Ratna Indira Gandhi College of Engineering - Maharashtra
• Birla Institute of Technology (BIT Ranchi) - Jharkhand
• Dr. DY Patil Institute of Engineering and Technology - Pune
• Coimbatore Institute of Technology - Tamil Nadu
• Shri Ram Institute of Management and Technology (SRIMT) - Delhi

M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering is offered by many IITs, NITs and other colleges in India. In M.Tech, students are supposed to do a lot of research work and have to prepare thesis during their coursework.

Tuition fee for the M.Tech. programme ranges from 40,000 to 100,000. It may go up to 5 lakhs in reputed private colleges.

An M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering student can get campus placement in various educational institutes as well as in companies like Atlas Copco, ITC, Godrej, JCB, Kirloskar and many others where he/she can earn up to 12 lakhs or more by working as Junior Engineers, independent consultants, mechanical design engineer etc.

M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering: Course Highlights

M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering: What is it About?

M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering takes a person through the whirlpool of science and mathematics. The course helps a student to get a deeper knowledge of solids, materials, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, a design of machine elements and many other concepts about machines and material.

Being a master’s student one is supposed to do a lot of research work in areas like thermal science and engineering, solid mechanics, dynamics, and control, etc.

Anyone who has done B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering and still have that hunger to know more about the design or maintenance, installation or working of machines should surely look forward to getting enrolled in M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering program. Moreover, Master’s degree opens the door also for teaching profession for an engineering student.

M.Tech program runs for a stretch of 2 years which are divided in 4 equal semesters of 6 months each in colleges like Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, IISC, Bangalore and many others.

There are other colleges like Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar which also provide a part-time M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering

M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering: Top Institutes

There are more than 800 colleges offering M.Tech. Mechanical Engineering including many IITs and NITs in India. Some of them are:

M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering: Eligibility

To become eligible for M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering a student must have at least 55% in aggregate in B.Tech. or equivalent in appropriate branch, while IITs like IIT Kharagpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Jodhpur ask for 60% in aggregate and a valid GATE score.

If someone has done his/her B.Tech. degree from an IIT with CGPA of 8.0 or above, he/she will get direct admission in M.Tech. and will not need a GATE score. Eligibility criteria is same for part-time M.Tech. course.

M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering: Admission Process

Admission to M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering in all the colleges, be it private or government including all the IITs and NITs, like Punjab Engineering College University of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela is done through GATE.However, IIT B.Tech. degree holders having a CGPA of 8.0 or more gets exempted from giving GATE and just have to face the interview. 

M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering: Syllabus and Course Description

M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering: Career Prospects

There is a huge demand of Mechanical Engineers in the industry and market as they are versatile and flexible enough to work in various job profiles like that of a project manager, logistics and automobile engineer, consultant in transportation, navigation officer, assistant professor in colleges and what not.

Automobile, oil refineries, mining, electronics firms, thermal power industry, air conditioning, armed forces, shipping industries, aviation industries are some of the fields a mechanical engineer can get jobs into.

There are no. of jobs for M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering postgraduates in the government sector and teaching sector as well. But the packages are not so high in govt. sector for freshers but there is a large scope of promotions. One can join as a junior engineer Indian Defense Services, PSU, Indian Railways etc.

M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering student can even go in the teaching profession and can become assistant professors in various colleges and universities.

Some of the major recruiters of M.Tech. Mechanical Engineers are:

• Tata Motors
• Larsen
• HPCL
• Ford
• Metro Rail Corp.
• Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd.
• DAE

Academic Options After M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering 

After getting through with M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering one can go for Ph.D. /M.S. program either in India only or in some foreign university. There are many colleges in India which offer a Ph.D. program in Mechanical Engineering.

Given below is a graph showing trending salary figures for different job profiles for a Mechanical Engineer:

Various job profiles on which a mechanical engineer can work in an industry are: